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NC Mutual Life: A Century of Resilience

A symbol of hope and resilience, NC Mutual provided essential financial support to African American and working-class communities for more than a century.

The Brave Court Testimony of Mose Wright

Mose Wright’s 1955 testimony at the trial of Emmett Till’s murderers demonstrates that fear did not hinder Black resistance during the civil rights era.

Henry Ossian Flipper

Once enslaved and later the first Black American to graduate from West Point, Henry Ossian Flipper is America’s overlooked, trailblazing antihero.